Quotes About Dreams

and I'm disgusted with dreams now — I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and to talk to — music that makes holes in the sky.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.

One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

Literature is my utopia.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.

Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.

Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.

Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Prospect is often better than possession.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Do what you love, the money will follow.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.